Thoughts on Gogol? Any recs for someone like him?

Depends what you like about him. You might be interested in reading Lukacs' essays on European Realism.

>>9408326
Nikolai Leskov

Forgot the name of it, but I liked his story with all the evil forest spirits. And The Overcoat. And the one about the man who realizes his life's dream by planting fruit trees, forgot the name of it too, though...

The closest you'll come to Gogol is other Russian writers from his period, i.e. Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Chekhov, Goncharov, Lermontov. I would recommend none of them because books are pointless drivel and we are all going to die so let's just hurry it up and stop pretending that it is better to read than to speak and listen and shit and eat corn.

>>9408348
>and we are all going to die

Speak for yourself. I plan on living forever.

>>9408326
REad his short stories; they're based

>>9408348
Follow Lermontov and suicide by duel urself my dude

>>9408326
Obviously a woman with a fake mustache. Sad.